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Post by ganews on Oct 25, 2023 17:42:49 GMT -5
Has any actor had a better year than Takashi Shimura in 1954? It's like Brando starring in The Godfather and Jaws in the same year. Joe Pesci in 1990 with Goodfellas and Home Alone? I mean, that's covering bases.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Nov 1, 2023 15:31:27 GMT -5
So the Stephen King novella The Mist is basically perfect, in my opinion. Short stories have always been his strength, and it's tightly and tautly plotted, with a good, ambiguous ending. The 2007 movie is very good, it's an excellent adaptation, captures the tension and humans-are-the-real-monsters vibe very well. BUT. I caught the last 20 minutes or so of it the other day on TV and that ENDING... First, Thomas Jane's character makes the tragic but understandable - within the context of the movie - decision that it's better for his son and the others in his car to die quickly at his own hand than to suffer at the hands of the monsters ravaging the town. It's heartbreaking, it's horrific, but it fits.
AND THEN. He gets out of the car, begging the creatures to come get him, expecting to be torn apart...
and instead the fucking national guard shows up and the mist clears and we see that the people, if not the town, will be saved. Dude killed his son and fellow survivors for NOTHING.
And I'm sorry but that is a giant middle finger, Frank Darabont, what the everloving hell.
Cannot watch that, it's just too much.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Nov 2, 2023 12:27:54 GMT -5
So the Stephen King novella The Mist is basically perfect, in my opinion. Short stories have always been his strength, and it's tightly and tautly plotted, with a good, ambiguous ending. The 2007 movie is very good, it's an excellent adaptation, captures the tension and humans-are-the-real-monsters vibe very well. BUT. I caught the last 20 minutes or so of it the other day on TV and that ENDING... First, Thomas Jane's character makes the tragic but understandable - within the context of the movie - decision that it's better for his son and the others in his car to die quickly at his own hand than to suffer at the hands of the monsters ravaging the town. It's heartbreaking, it's horrific, but it fits.
AND THEN. He gets out of the car, begging the creatures to come get him, expecting to be torn apart...
and instead the fucking national guard shows up and the mist clears and we see that the people, if not the town, will be saved. Dude killed his son and fellow survivors for NOTHING.
And I'm sorry but that is a giant middle finger, Frank Darabont, what the everloving hell.
Cannot watch that, it's just too much. Oh I love the ending of the movie. But I love dark endings sometimes. Apparently even King was wowed by Darabont's addition of that ending.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Nov 2, 2023 12:54:15 GMT -5
So the Stephen King novella The Mist is basically perfect, in my opinion. Short stories have always been his strength, and it's tightly and tautly plotted, with a good, ambiguous ending. The 2007 movie is very good, it's an excellent adaptation, captures the tension and humans-are-the-real-monsters vibe very well. BUT. I caught the last 20 minutes or so of it the other day on TV and that ENDING... First, Thomas Jane's character makes the tragic but understandable - within the context of the movie - decision that it's better for his son and the others in his car to die quickly at his own hand than to suffer at the hands of the monsters ravaging the town. It's heartbreaking, it's horrific, but it fits.
AND THEN. He gets out of the car, begging the creatures to come get him, expecting to be torn apart...
and instead the fucking national guard shows up and the mist clears and we see that the people, if not the town, will be saved. Dude killed his son and fellow survivors for NOTHING.
And I'm sorry but that is a giant middle finger, Frank Darabont, what the everloving hell.
Cannot watch that, it's just too much. Oh I love the ending of the movie. But I love dark endings sometimes. Apparently even King was wowed by Darabont's addition of that ending. I can appreciate the tragedy of it, but I can't watch it, it's just ... oof.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Nov 5, 2023 10:37:38 GMT -5
Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins may or may not be a good movie (we'll see when I watch it later this month), but I appreciate that it is a movie that is showing at a non-boutique theater near me which is neither a tentpole franchise nor Blumhouse-tier schlock horror. I wish there were more than one film that fit those criteria per month.
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Post by Trurl on Nov 5, 2023 19:29:32 GMT -5
Watched El Conde with my daughter last night and I have so many questions. I mean, I know a *little* about the history it's about, but obviously a lot of the metaphors were going right over my head. Even I know that there are some extremely odd and deliberate choices made in the story telling, and I have no idea why. Besides that though, it's got some lovely cinematography - it's all in b&w, but not, like, one of those lush noirs, more a little lower contrast, grimier. Even so the combination of the cinematography, lighting and costume design makes for some really stunning images.
I feel the need to watch a two hour youtube video done by a professor at the university of Santiago. But even so I enjoyed it.
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Post by ganews on Nov 5, 2023 21:03:56 GMT -5
I could just as easily put this in TV thoughts but I'd rather post here:
The ongoing parody of the Disney/Marvel machine by the various streaming shows under the "The Boys" umbrella is pretty fucking rich considering that the latter are produced by Amazon.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Nov 6, 2023 9:26:10 GMT -5
I could just as easily put this in TV thoughts but I'd rather post here: The ongoing parody of the Disney/Marvel machine by the various streaming shows under the "The Boys" umbrella is pretty fucking rich considering that the latter are produced by Amazon. Especially when you consider that when the original comic of the Boys debuted, Marvel was still a fairly small and independent company that was constantly on the brink of bankruptcy, and hadn't made any movies on its own yet.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Nov 9, 2023 14:50:07 GMT -5
I still think E-Buzz-Miller sounds like the website that a television show in the 2010s would make up so that they could have a character work at Buzzfeed without having to pay Buzzfeed anything. It was founded by some of the same Hudson University grads behind FaceSpace.
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Post by sarapen on Dec 1, 2023 12:40:26 GMT -5
imgur.com/TgSpgipSergei Bondarchuk's Waterloo, now with the original ABBA soundtrack.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Dec 5, 2023 14:30:17 GMT -5
Passing Christmas movie thoughts:
In our house, we love A Christmas Story. Last year we watched the newest sequel*, A Christmas Story Christmas, and we caught it again the other night on cable. It's legitimately a pretty entertaining movie in its own right and a solid successor - flipping the story from a kid at Christmas to a dad at Christmas, who's also trying to live up to his own father's memory.
*there were several sequels produced that followed Ralphie as a boy, but they are all terrible and feature few or none of the original cast. ACSC has a great deal of the original cast.
8-Bit Christmas, on the other hand, is trying to be an 80s-era Christmas Story and is trying too hard.
Noelle is cute and largely coasts on Anna Kendrick's charms, which are considerable.
Happiest Season is the gay Christmas movie we didn't know we needed. A delight.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Dec 5, 2023 17:58:57 GMT -5
I could just as easily put this in TV thoughts but I'd rather post here: The ongoing parody of the Disney/Marvel machine by the various streaming shows under the "The Boys" umbrella is pretty fucking rich considering that the latter are produced by Amazon. I don’t know what a “The Boys” is, but what is your opinion of Amazon owning the rights to most of Philip Kindred Dick’s work?
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Post by songstarliner on Dec 5, 2023 23:01:24 GMT -5
The plane crash scene in Cast Away is still terrifying. Also, Cast Away is still a great movie.
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Dec 7, 2023 15:54:14 GMT -5
I could just as easily put this in TV thoughts but I'd rather post here: The ongoing parody of the Disney/Marvel machine by the various streaming shows under the "The Boys" umbrella is pretty fucking rich considering that the latter are produced by Amazon. I don’t know what a “The Boys” is, but what is your opinion of Amazon owning the rights to most of Philip Kindred Dick’s work? I’m assuming it’s basic money/IP stuff but, if Bezos did have some personal involvement in acquiring he rights, it was from a “cool, I love PKD!” standpoint akin to Amazon’s Tolkein stuff and not an “My goal is for Amazon to become VALIS” sort of situation, which would be the case for a bunch of other tech execs. Bezos’s decision to retire and spend his fortune on routine old tich dick guy stuff like yacht trips in the Mediterranean, steroids, viagra, and bimbo-coded women really is wholesome compared to some of his competition.
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Dec 9, 2023 17:56:51 GMT -5
Amazing that the same person directed Sexy Beast and Under the Skin (I guess they both prominently feature pools, though)
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Dec 11, 2023 18:46:00 GMT -5
Went to a showing of Don’t Look Now that had a little talk with cinematographer Anthony Richmond in the end. A lot of interesting stuff (difficulty of dealing with tides since they had to lug all the equipment around by barge and park under bridges, how all the nighttime cinematogrpahy just fell into place once they got the blacks right, etc.). Richmond filmed a lot of rock documentaries and concerts (Let it be, stuff with the Stones and the Who) and had a very contentious bandmate-level relationship with Roeg at times, to the point of blows.
The highlight, though, was him recounting falling asleep very drunk at a party and finding himself woken up on the floor the next morning by some hard kicks with to the head. It was Warren Beauty, mad with jealousy over him having filmed the sex scene in Don’t Look Now, promising to get a second of film cut for each public hair he could count on screen.
There’s a bit of irony in Richmond having known (professionally, obviously) Christie for much longer than Beatty, having been assistant director of photographer on a bunch of her sixties films. He also gifted Christie and Sutherland a joint and a bottle of champagne after filming the sex scene, and still wonders why they didn’t get at it for real after the crew left.
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Post by songstarliner on Dec 13, 2023 23:04:01 GMT -5
Went to a showing of Don’t Look Now that had a little talk with cinematographer Anthony Richmond in the end. A lot of interesting stuff (difficulty of dealing with tides since they had to lug all the equipment around by barge and park under bridges, how all the nighttime cinematogrpahy just fell into place once they got the blacks right, etc.). Richmond filmed a lot of rock documentaries and concerts ( Let it be, stuff with the Stones and the Who) and had a very contentious bandmate-level relationship with Roeg at times, to the point of blows. The highlight, though, was him recounting falling asleep very drunk at a party and finding himself woken up on the floor the next morning by some hard kicks with to the head. It was Warren Beauty, mad with jealousy over him having filmed the sex scene in Don’t Look Now, promising to get a second of film cut for each public hair he could count on screen. There’s a bit of irony in Richmond having known (professionally, obviously) Christie for much longer than Beatty, having been assistant director of photographer on a bunch of her sixties films. He also gifted Christie and Sutherland a joint and a bottle of champagne after filming the sex scene, and still wonders why they didn’t get at it for real after the crew left. Am I the only one who thinks Don't Look Now would have been forgotten without that weirdly explicit sex scene? It's certainly the only thing it's famous for. I can't even recall the plot - something about art restoration and scaffolding? A spooky dead child? I don't even know. Maybe I'm biased because I don't find Donald Sutherland sexy in the slightest way, because yeesh.
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Post by songstarliner on Dec 13, 2023 23:05:58 GMT -5
Amazing that the same person directed Sexy Beast and Under the Skin (I guess they both prominently feature pools, though) Amazing that they are both amazing films, you mean?
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Post by pantsgoblin on Dec 13, 2023 23:43:10 GMT -5
Amazing that the same person directed Sexy Beast and Under the Skin (I guess they both prominently feature pools, though) Amazing that they are both amazing films, you mean? Sick as fuck. Basically all I require in a movie.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Dec 15, 2023 9:44:22 GMT -5
I loathe the concept of a Willy Wonka prequel movie with every fiber of my being, and my feelings toward Timothee Chalamet are...tepid at best. And yet so many other aspects of the production are so appealing to me. Loved the Paddingtons, love the cast (substantial delegations from both the British Prestige Drama and British Comedy Panel circles), and I recently discovered that Neil Hannon is doing the songs. I guess I'm going to see this movie? I'm annoyed, but I guess I am?
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Dec 15, 2023 9:48:42 GMT -5
Been thinking about my favorite Christmas movies, and I've realized I tend toward more classic and older ones...
Miracle on 34th St. (1939 version) It's a Wonderful Life White Christmas
plus: A Christmas Story While You Were Sleeping (underrated!) Muppet Christmas Carol
which are all a little older. I do like Elf, and we usually watch Home Alone and Christmas Vacation a few times, but honestly, Christmas Vacation annoys me. CLARK annoys me. I do find the neighbors pretty relatable though.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 16, 2023 3:59:55 GMT -5
I loathe the concept of a Willy Wonka prequel movie with every fiber of my being, and my feelings toward Timothee Chalamet are...tepid at best. And yet so many other aspects of the production are so appealing to me. Loved the Paddingtons, love the cast (substantial delegations from both the British Prestige Drama and British Comedy Panel circles), and I recently discovered that Neil Hannon is doing the songs. I guess I'm going to see this movie? I'm annoyed, but I guess I am?
I feel exactly the same way, but I'm not planning on seeing it. If you do, and you find it enjoyable, please let me know. I just hate the entire concept of this.
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Post by Celebith on Dec 16, 2023 8:02:22 GMT -5
Twin Peaks: The Return was like a reunion tour for so many great actors who passed so soon after, or during, filming. I'm reading Rum Punch, and watching an interview with Harry Dean Stanton, and it would be nice to see something with him and Robert Forster.
Stanton is pretty cantankerous in this. Arguing with the interviewer at multiple points that everything is pre-determined.
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Post by Celebith on Dec 16, 2023 8:05:20 GMT -5
So the Stephen King novella The Mist is basically perfect, in my opinion. Short stories have always been his strength, and it's tightly and tautly plotted, with a good, ambiguous ending. The 2007 movie is very good, it's an excellent adaptation, captures the tension and humans-are-the-real-monsters vibe very well. BUT. I caught the last 20 minutes or so of it the other day on TV and that ENDING... <snip>
And I'm sorry but that is a giant middle finger, Frank Darabont, what the everloving hell.
Cannot watch that, it's just too much. This is how The Mist perfectly captures the difference between terrifying and horrifying
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Dec 27, 2023 13:21:36 GMT -5
Did one of you vandalize a Wikipedia article just to make me interested in a Blumhouse film?
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Post by Dellarigg on Dec 27, 2023 13:48:37 GMT -5
Amazing that the same person directed Sexy Beast and Under the Skin (I guess they both prominently feature pools, though) His new film is an adaptation of a Martin Amis book about Auschwitz that throws out most of the book.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Dec 27, 2023 15:25:40 GMT -5
Not sure if I should be grateful or resentful of Ms. Goblin's gag gift for me this year. She found a person who ripped onto DVD a VHS of Nukie, a 1987 South African E.T. ripoff with Steve Railsback. I saw it as a kid and it haunted me for years before I was able to put a name to it from this Something Awful article. Will rewatch soon and report back the horror.
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Dec 27, 2023 18:05:15 GMT -5
Dellarigg He took the same approach to Under the Skin, wisely in my opinion—I read the book after seeing the film and found it pretty upfront and unimaginative in comparison (I remember it taking a sort of middling-“Anglophone literary”-novel-but-science-fiction approach I’m not fond of, either—I dislike the approach to the genre). I’m guessing it was a big mistake to take the same approach to Zone of Interest—the New York Times gave it a fairly scathing review that pretty much killed my interest in the movie.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Dec 28, 2023 10:31:24 GMT -5
Ha ha, in Ferrari, Enzo's mother literally says "the wrong son died," 16 years after Walk Hard.
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Post by LazBro on Dec 28, 2023 10:59:31 GMT -5
Not sure if I should be grateful or resentful of Ms. Goblin's gag gift for me this year. She found a person who ripped onto DVD a VHS of Nukie, a 1987 South African E.T. ripoff with Steve Railsback. I saw it as a kid and it haunted me for years before I was able to put a name to it from this Something Awful article. Will rewatch soon and report back the horror. Nukie is responsible for one of my favorite RedLetterMedia videos, which is NOT the one in which they watch Nukie, but the one about VHS collector / grading scams that builds its argument around Nukie:
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